Alot of NHL:ers have come to the SEL and simply hasnt been cutting it, not even in the worst teams in the entire league. Dunno if thats says anything about the standard of alot of NHL:ers or the fact that the sel is pretty good now a days

Problem is that most of these guys haven't been playing regularly since last season and then they're going over to teams with players that've been playing 3-4 months of hockey and a couple of games a week, who are used to playing games

so it takes about 5-10 games for these nhl-ers to get used to the tempo and of course the big rink too